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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154706390 Title: The invention of sacred tradition Author: James R Lewis; Olav Hammer Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780521864794 0521864798 OCLC:154706390

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The invention of sacred tradition

Author:	James R Lewis; Olav Hammer
Publisher:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	In the domain of religion, historically verifiable traditions coexist with recent innovations whose origins are spuriously projected back into time. This book examines the phenomenon of 'invented traditions' in religions ranging in time from Zoroastrianism to Scientology, and geographically from Tibet to North America and Europe.
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Subjects	Religion. Spiritual life. Godsdiensten. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	James R Lewis; Olav Hammer Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780521864794 0521864798
OCLC Number:	154706390
Description:	xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:	Introduction / Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis -- Scientology, scripture and sacred tradition / Mikael Rothstein -- 'He may be lying but what he says is true' : the sacred tradition of Don Juan as reported by Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist, trickster, guru, allegorist / Charlotte E. Hardman -- The invention of sacred tradition : Mormonism / Douglas J. Davies -- Antisemitism, conspiracy culture, Christianity, and Islam : the history and contemporary religious significance of the 'Protocols of the learned elders of Zion' / Christopher Partridge and Ron Geaves The invention of a counter-tradition : the case of the North American anti-cult movement / David G. Bromley and Douglas E. Cowan -- 'Heavenly deception' Sun Myung Moon and Divine principle / George D. Chryssides -- 'Forgery' in the New Testament / Einar Thomassen -- Three phases of inventing Rosicrucian tradition in the seventeenth century / Susanna Åkerman -- A name for all and no one: Zoroaster as a figure of authorization and a screen of ascription / Michael Stausberg -- The peculiar sleep : receiving The Urantia book / Sarah Lewis -- Ontology of the past and its materialization in Tibetan treasures / Holly Gayley -- Pseudo-Dionysius : the mediation of sacred traditions / Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington -- Spurious attribution of the Hebrew Bible / Philip R. Davies -- Inventing paganisms: making nature / Graham Harvey.
Responsibility:	edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.
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